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Roberts, Rosemary
The Making and Remaking of China's "Red Classics", 02/2018Book Chapter
Lianhuanhua連環畫, or picture storybooks, were traditionally palm-sized books in which on each page two or three lines of text, usually at the bottom of the page, are accompanied by a hand-drawn illustration (or sometimes a still from a film) that link together to tell a story.Lianhuanhuabecame popular in China in the 1920s and 1930s and were promoted by left-wing intellectuals as a means of spreading revolutionary ideology to the lower classes and children because they were engaging and could reach people with low levels of literacy.¹ As such the new Communist government post-1949 strongly supported their production
